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<p><P><i>"My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has ever been written. I intend to surpass Pepys as a diarist."</i><br><br>When John Frush Knox (1907-1997) wrote these words, he was in the middle of law school, and his attempt at surpassing Pepys—part scrapbook, part social commentary, and part recollection—had already reached 750 pages. His efforts as a chronicler might have landed in a family attic had he not secured an eminent position after graduation as law clerk to Justice James C. McReynolds—arguably one of the most disagreeable justices to sit on the Supreme Court—during the tumultuous year when President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to "pack" the Court with justices who would approve his New Deal agenda. Knox's memoir instead emerges as a record of one of the most fascinating periods in American history.<br><br><i>The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox</i>—edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow—offers a candid, at times naïve, insider's view of the showdown between Roosevelt and the Court that took place in 1937. At the same time, it marvelously portrays a Washington culture
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- Author
- and with a foreword and afterword by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow
- Publisher
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226448633
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Law, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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